Brief Bio:  1905-2000, printer; publisher; playing card manufacturer, Leeds; London, England

Notes:  located in Leeds, West Yorkshire and London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom;
18??: founded as Waddingtons Ltd by John Waddington of Leeds and Wilson Barrett; originally a printing business;
1905: John Waddington Ltd
1922 - began producing card games;
1924 - Waddington's began their 'Beautiful Britain' series of playing cards depicting scenes of seaside, rural and historic resorts; subsidised firstly by the Great Western Railway company and later by the London and North Eastern Railway company, continuing until 1956.
1971 - took over the printers Alf Cooke
1995 - acquired by Hasbro
2000: acquired by John Mansfield Group plc to form communisis
the company had traded under many names including: Waddington's House of Games, John Waddington Limited, Waddington Games, and finally just Waddingtons. Waddington PLC;
diversified with several factories specialising in particular areas of printing - packaging, stationery, advertising, plastics, security printing, postage stamps and, playing cards.

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